12/19/2010

Now Christmas is in the air here´s a very sweet and delicious recipe from Scotland, called TABLET, that is really easy to make. You can chop it up into chunks or slices and then wrap them in cellophane and ribbon and they make really nice gifts for a friend. Or you can just eat it yourself!

You need:1kg of white sugar1 tin of condensed milk100g of unsalted buttera little fresh milk to dampen the sugar

Preparation time : 20 minutes

1. put sugar in a pan and dampen it with a little milk (not too much - less than half a cup)2. add butter and the condensed milk and turn on heat to medium.3. keep stirring until the mixture comes to the boil (approx. 10 mins)4. its important not to burn the sugar so keep stirring.5. when it starts to boil turn down the heat.6. keep stirring to stop the mixture from sticking to the bottom of the pan.7. let the mixture simmer (that is keep it bubbling but not too hot)8. the volume often increases so you need to use a big saucepan.9. notice the mixture will begin to change colour. It will start going darker.10. keep stirring and then when you feel a change in consistency (it will start to feel grainy on the bottom of the pan and the mix will thicken) you need to check that its ready.11. take a little of the mixture on a teaspoon and plunge it into a glass of cold water. It should form a soft sticky ball that should drip off the spoon very slowly. If it does this then it is ready.12. quickly pour the mix on a greased baking tray and let it set hard.13. wash the saucepan immediately or it will be difficult to clean when the mix dries.14. keep in fridge overnight.15. cut into chunks or small slices.16. ENJOY.

HAVE A VERY HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND SEE YOU ALL IN THE NEW YEAR!!!!LOTS OF LOVE, KATE

12/09/2010

CONGRATULATIONS EVERYBODY!!!This term the bilingual wall (located in the upstairs corridor of our High School) has been a success. There are a lot of great wallpapers and essays. Food, comics, festivities... everything has been put here. Thanks a lot and we hope it will be also a great place to show your works during the second term.

12/07/2010

From: PilarHi! How is it going! I hope you´re enjoying your long weekend. So do I! but as I´m always thinking of you... can you guess where I´ve been this weekend? Look at the narrow streets and there´s a typical tower in the background...

Moreover, here you have an interesting and amusing website to prepare your composition about Thanksgiving. You´ll be able to learn about the ship (Mayflower), the journey, the crew... in order to imagine their feelings, fear and hopes. Remember: write it as if you were one of the original Pilgrims!

11/08/2010

The Sieve of Eratosthenes is an ancient method for finding all primes numbers up to a specified number.

It was created by Eratosthenes (275-194 B.C., Greece), an ancient Greek mathematician. Just as a sieve is a strainer for draining spaghetti, Eratosthenes's sieve drains out composite numbers and leaves prime numbers behind. The numbers from 1 to 100 are listed in a table. We will use The Sieve of Eratosthenes to find all primes up to the number 100 by following the directions below.

Directions:

Cross out 1 since it is not prime.

Circle 2 because it is the smallest prime number. Cross out every multiple of 2.

Circle the next open number, 3. Now cross out every multiple of 3.

Circle the next open number, 5. Now cross out every multiple of 5.

Circle the next open number, 7. Now cross out every multiple of 7.

Continue this process until all numbers in the table have been circled or crossed out.

You have just circled all the prime numbers from 1 to 100!

Questions:

1. How many prime numbers are there from 1 to 100?2. List all prime numbers from 1 to 100.3. Which number is the only even prime number?4. An emirp (prime spelled backwards) is a prime that gives you a different prime when its digits are reversed. For example, 13 and 31 are emirps. List all emirps between 1 and 100.

Here it is the Power Point presentation done in Math class in the European Section in 1º ESO. We divided the class in groups of 2 or 3 people, then each group worked on a divisibility rule. We put everything together and here it is the result, I hope you like it.

11/02/2010

Our pupils from the 1st and 2nd year of ESO visited Tutankhamon´s tomb exposition in Madrid last october 7th. We learned about the pharaoh, his tomb and its discovery, and, of course, we all were captivated by everything we saw there. Some of our pupils prepared powerpoint presentations about it. All of them are wonderful. Congratulations! Here you have one of the best works. Enjoy it!

Click on the photograph to download the file. (As it is a zip file, you have to extract all in the same folder. Then you´ll be able to listen to the music.)

As you know, during last month your Section teachers have paid attention to your work, behaviour, attitude and participation in the Social Science classes, and we want to congratulate as October´s best couple...

10/31/2010

Students in the 2nd year of ESO have been working on INTRODUCTIONS and GREETINS, and here we want to show you one of the best compositions they have made, the author is Sonia and we want to congratulate her!!!DESCARGAR ARCHIVO

With a bit delay, we want to show you the works from the 1st and 2nd year regarding the European Day of Languages, celebrated on the 26th September. Students of 1ESO translated several words in a lot of langauges and students of 2ESO made information papers with flags, the history of this day, the members of the European Union... Good work!!!

Thank you everybody and specially Dina, Ingrid's mother, for making the 29th October such a special day. During break time, we gave the prizes for the winners and then students in the 1st and 2nd year of the European Section had a shared class in which Dina spoke about Halloween and we even watched a video of the amazing decoration in her house!!. It was a great Halloween day!!! And the winner was...

10/29/2010

Good morning, everybody!!Today in our High School we are going to celebrate Halloween. Because of this reason, we have made a decoration contest. 17 groups (each of them has 3 members)have participated with wallpapers that have decorated our corridor. During break time, an American woman (one of our teacher's mother) will come and give the prizes. Then, pupils in the 1st and 2nd year belonging to the European Section will attend a class given by her. It will be original, funny and even scary!!!HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!

10/12/2010

WELCOME TO THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR 2010-2011!!! THIS YEAR OUR EUROPEAN SECTION HAS TWO GROUPS: A GROUP OF 28 STUDENTS IN 1ST ESO AND A GROUP OF 27 STUDENTS IN 2ND ESO. STUDENTS IN THE FIRST YEAR STUDY MUSIC AND MATHS IN ENGLISH, AND STUDENTS IN THE SECOND YEAR STUDY SOCIAL SCIENCE AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN ENGLISH. THE TEACHERS IMPLIED IN THE EUROPEAN SECTION ARE:MAGDALENA MARQUEZ - ENGLISH TEACHERANA ESTHER MONGE - ENGLISH TEACHERFLOR GUTIERREZ - MUSIC TEACHERPILAR VILLAVERDE - SOCIAL SCIENCE TEACHERINGRID MINGUEZ - PHYSICAL EDUCATION TEACHERALICIA MORALES - MATHS TEACHERKATE ROBERTS - CONVERSATION ASSISTANTWE WANT TO WELCOME YOU AND HOPE YOU HAVE A GREAT YEAR WITH US IMPROVING YOUR ENGLISH!!!